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Omicron Scorpii (ο Sco ο Scorpii) is a star in the constellation Scorpius. It is a white A-type bright giant with an apparent magnitude of +4.57 located approximately 1200 light years from Earth. This star has about eight times the mass of the Sun and is roughly 40 million years old.The star is radiating around 3200 times the luminosity of the Sun from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of about 8100 K.

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